Bright and Distant Shores

Authors : Dominic Smith

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Published Date : 2011-09-13

ISBN-13 : 9781439198889

Page : 480 Pages

Language : en

Descriptions Bright and Distant Shores

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos comes a sweeping historical novel set amid the skyscrapers of 1890s Chicago and the far-flung islands of the South Pacific. In the waning years of the nineteenth century there was a hunger for tribal artifacts, spawning collecting voyages from museums and collectors around the globe. In 1897, one such collector, a Chicago insurance magnate, sponsors an expedition into the South Seas to commemorate the completion of his company’s new skyscraper–the world’s tallest building. The ship is to bring back an array of Melanesian weaponry and handicrafts, but also several natives related by blood. Caught up in this scheme are two orphans—Owen Graves, an itinerant trader from Chicago’s South Side who has recently proposed to the girl he must leave behind, and Argus Niu, a mission houseboy in the New Hebrides who longs to be reunited with his sister. At the cusp of the twentieth century, the expedition forces a collision course between the tribal and the civilized, between two young men plagued by their respective and haunting pasts. An epic and ambitious story that brings to mind E. L. Doctorow, with echoes of Melville and Robert Louis Stevenson, Bright and Distant Shores is a wondrous achievement by a writer known for creating compelling fiction from the fabric of history.

Descriptions Distant Shores

his admiration for the heroic virtues of their inhabitants, and the mystical strain in his nature, his sense of wonder before the elemental and infinite. These early Monhegan paintings, with their uncompromising clarity, their concentration on the stark forms of the island, and their romantic delight in great expanses of sea, cold northern sky, and brilliant light, were among his most moving works.”–Lloyd Goodrich “[We see] Kent’s fascination with the wild and remote places of the earth, his admiration for the heroic virtues of their inhabitants, and the mystical strain in his nature, his sense of wonder before the elemental and infinite. These early Monhegan paintings, with their uncompromising clarity, their concentration on the stark forms of the island, and their romantic delight in great expanses of sea, cold northern sky, and brilliant light, were among his most moving works.”–Lloyd Goodrich

Dreams of Distant Shores

Authors : Patricia A. McKillip

Publisher : Tachyon Publications

Published Date : 2016-05-16

ISBN-13 : 9781616962197

Page : 288 Pages

Language : en

Descriptions Dreams of Distant Shores

Featuring three brand-new stories and an original introduction by Peter S. Beagle, author of The Last Unicorn. Bestselling author Patricia A. McKillip (The Riddle-Master of Hed) is one of the most lyrical writers gracing the fantasy genre. With the debut of her newest work, Dreams of Distant Shores is a true ode to her many talents. Within these pages you will find a youthful artist possessed by both his painting and his muse and seductive travelers from the sea enrapturing distant lovers. The statue of a mermaid comes suddenly to life, and two friends are transfixed by a haunted estate. Fans of McKillip’s ethereal fiction will find much to delight them; those lucky enough to be discovering her work will find much to enchant them.

Distant Shores

Authors : Marco Palmieri

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Published Date : 2012-06-05

ISBN-13 : 9781471106866

Page : 400 Pages

Language : en

Descriptions Distant Shores

Building on the success of HOMECOMING and THE FARTHER SHORE (2003), Distant Shores is a collection of stories – some sweeping, some intimate – which spans the entire length and breadth of the Voyager television series. This celebratory anthology brings together a host of Star Trek’s most popular authors – among them Ilsa J. Bick, Keith R.A. DeCandido and Heather Jarman – with a veritable feast of Star Trek: Voyager fiction. Along with the STRING THEORY trilogy, this large-format action-packed anthology is published to mark ten years since the USS Voyager’s epic journey began.

From Distant Shores

Authors : Mary Electa Adams

Publisher : Forgotten Books

Published Date : 2019-01-04

ISBN-13 : 9780365059493

Page : 26 Pages

Language : en

Descriptions From Distant Shores

Excerpt from From Distant Shores: Poems A timbered bridge with shadows black, And spans awry, an ancient wrack, I cross it over the turbid track. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.